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Is Russia Plotting to Bring Down OPEC?
2018-03-10
[Oilprice.com]
Full article at title link. Short form maybe or just join together with Iran and Iraq as main supplier to EU and China. The "however clause" explores price fixing tendencies which are upsetting the EU and might really upset China. Maybe enough that they join together to cut Russia out. Lots of hand waving and sloppy scenarios.
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#7  C S Lewis said that people have to worship/believe in something...so if they do not believe in God or Jesus the Messiah, they have to find something to worship.

Just color environmentalists just another group of religious fanatics.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2018-03-10 20:27  

#6  What P2K said as much as anything brought about a weakening of OPEC. OPEC screwed the U.S. for far too long. Often oil money from the U.S. was in turn used to fund terrorism against us. Radical environmentalists in the U.S. have also thwarted becoming independent from OPEC. I appeciate a clean environment, but extremists have carried their cause to the left of loony.
Posted by: JohnQC   2018-03-10 14:43  

#5  That's an article from 2015

Good catch, g(r)omgoru. Given that, the question for the group is whether Russia succeeded. Or perhaps whether the intention succeeded via the American execution thereof.
Posted by: trailing wife   2018-03-10 12:41  

#4  Actually, bringing down OPEC would be a good idea.

It would put an end to a lot of the moslem BS running rampant in the ME and we'd have fewer pictures on YouTube of silver plated Audis and diamond encrusted Ferraris...

Those places are just tribes with flags (Hat tip to the late great Chris Hinchens).
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2018-03-10 09:35  

#3  Maybe, but they've been far less effective than American frackers. Drill, baby, drill.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2018-03-10 07:58  

#2  OPEC has always been its own worst enemy.
Posted by: JohnQC   2018-03-10 07:11  

#1  That's an article from 2015
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2018-03-10 01:07  

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